--- title: Watch Cats and Dogs Remake—and Improve—Holiday Movie Classics description: If anyone is going to show those kids from 'A Christmas Story' how to lick a pole, it should be ridiculously cute pug canonical: https://time.com/4157574/holiday-movies-cats-dogs/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-21T19:55:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:48.274Z og:title: Watch Cats and Dogs Remake—and Improve—Holiday Movie Classics og:description: If anyone is going to show those kids from 'A Christmas Story' how to lick a pole, it should be ridiculously cute pug og:url: https://time.com/4157574/holiday-movies-cats-dogs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Cats and Dogs Remake—and Improve—Holiday Movie Classics twitter:description: If anyone is going to show those kids from 'A Christmas Story' how to lick a pole, it should be ridiculously cute pug twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Cats and Dogs Remake—and Improve—Holiday Movie Classics > Sponsored content. 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From jubilant exclamations — "Santa knowed what I wanted for Christmas!" — to earsplitting shrieks, here are some of our favorite reactions._ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Dec 21, 2015 7:55 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Dec 21, 2015 7:55 PM UTC Move over, Grinch. This year a kitten stole Christmas—and our hearts right along with it. [SheKnows](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnGBh0qri3A) has teamed up with the Humane Society of New York to improve everyone’s favorite holiday movies by adding puppies and kittens. Sit back and watch _The Kitten Who Stole Christmas_ starring a wicked kitten and an adorable French bulldog. See Will Ferrell get upstaged by an adorable pup in _Elf,_ while the creepy _Polar Express_ is only improved by the addition of poodles. And if anyone is going to show those kids from _A Christmas Story_ how to lick a pole, it should be ridiculously cute pug. A bunch of the holiday classics are in the mix from _Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer_ to _Home Alone,_ including a kitten Joe Pesci and even _Love Actually._ If the human version fills you with ennui, this version starring a giant fluffball and a tiny kitty will definitely turn you into a fan. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4157574/holiday-movies-cats-dogs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4157574/holiday-movies-cats-dogs/"},"headline":"Watch Cats and Dogs Remake—and Improve—Holiday Movie Classics","datePublished":"2015-12-21T19:55:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:48.274Z","description":"If anyone is going to show those kids from A Christmas Story how to lick a pole, it should be ridiculously cute pug","url":"https://time.com/4157574/holiday-movies-cats-dogs/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Dogs","movies","cats","christmas","Holidays"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4157574/holiday-movies-cats-dogs/","name":"Watch Cats and Dogs Remake—and Improve—Holiday Movie Classics"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Here Is an Adorable Compilation of Kids Reacting to Opening Christmas Presents","description":"From jubilant exclamations — \"Santa knowed what I wanted for Christmas!\" — to earsplitting shrieks, here are some of our favorite reactions.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/bphe0Q3F/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2013-12-20T15:53:36.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/bphe0Q3F.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4157574/holiday-movies-cats-dogs/","duration":"PT1M19S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4157574/holiday-movies-cats-dogs/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```